Ungained

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not gained.; That one has not acquired possession of. not-comparable

    "Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;"

  2. 2
    Not gained.; Not reached. not-comparable

    "ungained heights"

  3. 3
    Not gained.; Unaccomplished; not achieved. not-comparable

    "What ought to be gained by industry and economy or left ungained is often secured by fraud in some form among the class spoken of as enterprising and substantial citizens,"

  4. 4
    Not gained.; Not won over. not-comparable

    "There was another person, however, still ungained ; and that was no other than her footman, whose secrecy our hero attempted to secure in the morning by an handsome present, which he received with many professions of gratitude and devotion to his service; yet this complaisance was nothing but a cloak used to disguise the design he arboured of making his master acquainted with the whole transaction."

  5. 5
    Not gained.; Not increased. not-comparable

    "Note that the signal shot noise is taken as the square root of the ungained signal times the MCP gain."

Example

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"Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;"

Etymology

From un- + gained.

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